That's why I oppose solving the Spam problem using laws and politics. We should oppose those laws as we opose any law that tries to control or censor any other area of the internet. How long until any of the Spam laws are used against the Net?
The Spam problem is a technical one, and as such should be solved technically. Somebody once compared a political solution to the spam problem with the laws that make you use the seat belt, but this is not the same case. There are no rightful uses for crashing your car when not whearing a seat belt, but there are rightful uses for some mass e-mails (distribution lists, discussion groups, legally registered advertisement, etc).
The current system is flawed. Blame it on the SMTP protocol or the administrators that use it without knowing it. There lies the problem and there it should be solved. There are great proposals for solving this (digital certificates or pgp signatures at the transport layer, etc), and I (as many of us are) am willing to adopt any new technology that should solve this problem, if it is incompatible with the current email technology, well, bad luck, somewhere the first step must be taken. Look at IPV6.
Didn't yourself told you that you shared the technical specs on Kazaa 2023 by mistake and IBM started producing time machines for everyone?
They didn't steal it, everyione is buying one. You don't have any idea how many times I have beaten the crap out of Darl McBride when he was on high school using mine.
It's a lot easier to write a worm having the Windows' source code available. This bug came from China, and Microsoft has sent the source code to China... maybe they should start looking for the Blaster writer over there...
Also, the last attack agains Taiwan by some chinese crackers may have something to do with this. Maybe Microsoft was right when they said that it would be a major security risk to publish the Windows source code.
Glad to see the real identity of the spammerwho has been anonimously posting links to amazon products with himself (inertishomepa-20) as referrer.
Guess you forgot to check the "Post Anonymously" check box this time. Anyway, this is a spammer people, dont click those links.
On a different note I see you are also the owner of the infamous martin-studio website that has been placing ads on the mirrors for slashdotted stories....
"One possible scenario is that Eolas would have the power necessary to re-establish the browser-as-application-platform as a viable competitor to Windows. That would be an interesting outcome, wouldn't it? How much would that be worth? The Web-OS concept, where the browser is the interface to all interactive apps on the client side, was always a killer idea. It still is. It lost momentum not because it wasn't economically or technically feasible, but because MS made it unlikely for anybody but them to make money on the Web-client side. Therefore, nobody could justify the necessary investment to take a really-serious shot at it. It doesn't have to be that way, does it? Just think of how we could use this patent to re-invigorate and expand the competitive landscape in this recently-moribund industry. What if we could do what the DOJ couldn't, and in the process make Eolas and everybody else, possibly excluding MS, richer? Wouldn't Eolas stand to profit more in such a scenario than any kind of pre-trial settlement could provide? Wouldn't everybody else?"
You can call it a fact that Eolas is really pissed at Microsoft, gives a shit about the money and the only thing they want is kill IE.
Where's that quote from? Looks really interesting, but I'm pretty sure I haven't read it.
Re:Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies
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You have posted (as an Anonymous Coward) several links to books on amazon.com with you as a refferer (you make some $$ with each sale made through that link), and the mods keep modding you up.
This is a spammer, people, don't click the link, you give him money through that link.
Corporate america has everything to do with it. My point is that they push one-hit-wonder shit bands down your throats through MTV and Radio stations that play 10 bands, maybe 15 songs on a decent rotation.
You are right about one hit wonders, they have made the recording industry the joke they are.
Then they wonder why no one wants to buy the complete album. Why would I buy LOAD when I can just download the one song on it that I like?!
I'm all for a new business model where you get to pick the songs you like. A lot of bands have adapted to this model but the whole industry going in this direction is a tough thing, it has a lot of momentum.
I use Apache to distribute mp3s, some of them illegal, others not. Why don't they shut down Apache? But I also use Apache for legal things, such as my (often unfunny) comic strip. The same goes for napster.
But the Apache Foundation has not developed the Apache product to explicity violate the copyright law. Everybody loves to argue that Napster may have a lot of legal uses, but the real thing is that it was used for illegaly distributing copyrighted works, it was developed with this in mind, it was the main use, they failed to modify the system to lessen the infrigements when they were asked, and they were held liable because the technical specifications of the system required a central index (not P2P) where they could have applied certain filters if they would have wanted.
In this case, Metallica is the only band in the current music horizon that has made the change in the right direction:
1.- Ship a DVD along with the CD for no extra cost 2.- Provide acces to Value Added goods on a web site after you buy the CD (a code in the CD) 3.- Sell the whole package for $8 less than the rest
And, of course, the music in that album kicks ass...
but you honestly need to pick up a musical instrument -- any musical instrument -- and understand how music works
Given that I come from a family of musical tradition (my sister is currently touring in europe playing the piano) and was the lead guitar player for a band for over 5 years I find that comment amusing.
First: anyone can claim anything in these forums, so trust my statements at will. Second: Watch the acompanying DVD on the St Anger album to understand the album, is there for a reason.
I'm a huge Metallica fan, and have been critical when they have screwed things up, but this time they have recorded a great album. What I see is this: this album is not for everyone, and most people who says they love it don't really understand it. The first time I listened to it i swore they were out of their minds and had lost me as a fan, but on re-listening it grew on me, and now is one of my favorites all time (listen to "Shoot me again")
The music has evolved, if you want great guitar solos go to a Metallica concert, they play like there is no tomorrow.
St Anger is awesome, better than the albums that came after the black album, but they were still good, they were experimenting and with time those albums have become and essential part of my collection. Try listenin "Bleeding Me" when on the road.
Heh, that's funny because Metallica is the only band in the current music horizon that has made the change in the right direction:
1.- Ship a DVD along the CD for no extra cost 2.- Provide acces to Value Added goods on a web site after you buy the CD 3.- Sell the whole package for $8 less than the rest
And, of course, the music in that album kicks ass...
What has corporate america to do with this? Napster was providing a medium for commiting a crime, and they failed to correct it, so they were shut down. End of the story.
Metallica was fighting for their rights, and has all the right to do so, even in the future.
And I would say that the crappy iron-maiden/in-flames/nevermores/iced-earths/soilw orks ship sailed many moons ago... Metallica kicked their asses really hard... and keeps kicking...
Right now you are modded as troll, but I find your comment Insightful as hell.
Metallica decided to go against napster for failing on stoping the illegal trading of their copyrighted work. Technically speaking Napster was not a P2P system, having a central index was what cost them the case, and Metallica had a case.
Even now, we all know that on all the P2P networks almost all (you can safely say that all) content is illegal. Metallica still has ground to sue any of the P2P system creators, but they would lose this time if they do. They have the right to sue, and napster was guilty and had to be punished.
Now labelling everything Metallica as crap because they gave Napster what they deserved is childish, troll, flamebait, and most important of all, the very reason why the **AA and the big Media Corporations take us geeks as idiots an pirates.
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I have been looking for a good source on the security of CDMA (2000 - 1X, but also CDMA). I have found the basic stuff using google, but is difficult to find real info given that almost all the google results are for press releases or biz-talk from the technology providers (qualcomm, ericsson, motorola, etc) and all of them state "great security".
The question is can somebody deploy a off-the-shelf (or homebuilt) scanner and grab the conversations on-the-air? I know that a PR (pseudo random) number is used with the ESN and A-key to generate some keys for encrypting some of the communications, and that the voice channel is "scrambled", but is there a source where the security implications of this is discussed?
Also interesting is that this article appeared (or was going to) on yesterday's slashdot edition but after being available for subscribers for a while it dissapeared.
In most cases application level replication does not work. When you replicate a DB you need an exact copy, not only the data or table structures, but stored procedures, functions, foreign keys, triggers, synonyms, etc.
In my day job we use Oracle because
1.- Management is using the Powered by Oracle (or something like that) to sell the products to our clients 2.- Replication
But in my freelance company we use PostgreSQL exclusively and have experienced the burden of not having a reliable replication software. This is Good News for us small shops.
This is great... I wish I had a highly visited web-site to join this protest.
Anyways, apache joining is a great step, it is a highly recognized organization, but how about linux.com, linux.org, kernel.org, gnu.org, fsf.org, etc next?
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That's why I oppose solving the Spam problem using laws and politics. We should oppose those laws as we opose any law that tries to control or censor any other area of the internet. How long until any of the Spam laws are used against the Net?
The Spam problem is a technical one, and as such should be solved technically. Somebody once compared a political solution to the spam problem with the laws that make you use the seat belt, but this is not the same case. There are no rightful uses for crashing your car when not whearing a seat belt, but there are rightful uses for some mass e-mails (distribution lists, discussion groups, legally registered advertisement, etc).
The current system is flawed. Blame it on the SMTP protocol or the administrators that use it without knowing it. There lies the problem and there it should be solved. There are great proposals for solving this (digital certificates or pgp signatures at the transport layer, etc), and I (as many of us are) am willing to adopt any new technology that should solve this problem, if it is incompatible with the current email technology, well, bad luck, somewhere the first step must be taken. Look at IPV6.
Didn't yourself told you that you shared the technical specs on Kazaa 2023 by mistake and IBM started producing time machines for everyone?
They didn't steal it, everyione is buying one. You don't have any idea how many times I have beaten the crap out of Darl McBride when he was on high school using mine.
Now that you mention it, probably.
... maybe they should start looking for the Blaster writer over there ...
It's a lot easier to write a worm having the Windows' source code available. This bug came from China, and Microsoft has sent the source code to China
Also, the last attack agains Taiwan by some chinese crackers may have something to do with this. Maybe Microsoft was right when they said that it would be a major security risk to publish the Windows source code.
Glad to see the real identity of the spammer who has been anonimously posting links to amazon products with himself (inertishomepa-20) as referrer.
....
Guess you forgot to check the "Post Anonymously" check box this time. Anyway, this is a spammer people, dont click those links.
On a different note I see you are also the owner of the infamous martin-studio website that has been placing ads on the mirrors for slashdotted stories
You are the same spammer referred from other articles.
And mods keep modding you up. This is a spammer, people, a subtle one, but one nevertheless.
Don't click that link, you give him money out of it.
Eolas is a one man corporation, the only employee is Mike Doyle, the CEO.
From the Cringely interview:
"One possible scenario is that Eolas would have the power necessary to re-establish the browser-as-application-platform as a viable competitor to Windows. That would be an interesting outcome, wouldn't it? How much would that be worth? The Web-OS concept, where the browser is the interface to all interactive apps on the client side, was always a killer idea. It still is. It lost momentum not because it wasn't economically or technically feasible, but because MS made it unlikely for anybody but them to make money on the Web-client side. Therefore, nobody could justify the necessary investment to take a really-serious shot at it. It doesn't have to be that way, does it? Just think of how we could use this patent to re-invigorate and expand the competitive landscape in this recently-moribund industry. What if we could do what the DOJ couldn't, and in the process make Eolas and everybody else, possibly excluding MS, richer? Wouldn't Eolas stand to profit more in such a scenario than any kind of pre-trial settlement could provide? Wouldn't everybody else?"
You can call it a fact that Eolas is really pissed at Microsoft, gives a shit about the money and the only thing they want is kill IE.
Great read!! Right on-topic.
Where's that quote from? Looks really interesting, but I'm pretty sure I haven't read it.
You have posted (as an Anonymous Coward) several links to books on amazon.com with you as a refferer (you make some $$ with each sale made through that link), and the mods keep modding you up.
This is a spammer, people, don't click the link, you give him money through that link.
I installed this patch instead!!!
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It never gets old
If you attested to IBM being The Bad guy and are cheering them now as The Good guy I believe in 20 years you'll be cheering the Real Bad Guy 'o'
With wget you will keep getting a refference to the same file.
y .asf -dumpstream
mplayer is your friend:
mplayer http://66.246.105.13:80/adcritic/ibm-linux-prodig
check for the file stream.dump
Corporate america has everything to do with it. My point is that they push one-hit-wonder shit bands down your throats through MTV and Radio stations that play 10 bands, maybe 15 songs on a decent rotation.
...
You are right about one hit wonders, they have made the recording industry the joke they are.
Then they wonder why no one wants to buy the complete album. Why would I buy LOAD when I can just download the one song on it that I like?!
I'm all for a new business model where you get to pick the songs you like. A lot of bands have adapted to this model but the whole industry going in this direction is a tough thing, it has a lot of momentum.
I use Apache to distribute mp3s, some of them illegal, others not. Why don't they shut down Apache? But I also use Apache for legal things, such as my (often unfunny) comic strip. The same goes for napster.
But the Apache Foundation has not developed the Apache product to explicity violate the copyright law. Everybody loves to argue that Napster may have a lot of legal uses, but the real thing is that it was used for illegaly distributing copyrighted works, it was developed with this in mind, it was the main use, they failed to modify the system to lessen the infrigements when they were asked, and they were held liable because the technical specifications of the system required a central index (not P2P) where they could have applied certain filters if they would have wanted.
In this case, Metallica is the only band in the current music horizon that has made the change in the right direction:
1.- Ship a DVD along with the CD for no extra cost
2.- Provide acces to Value Added goods on a web site after you buy the CD (a code in the CD)
3.- Sell the whole package for $8 less than the rest
And, of course, the music in that album kicks ass
but you honestly need to pick up a musical instrument -- any musical instrument -- and understand how music works
Given that I come from a family of musical tradition (my sister is currently touring in europe playing the piano) and was the lead guitar player for a band for over 5 years I find that comment amusing.
First: anyone can claim anything in these forums, so trust my statements at will.
Second: Watch the acompanying DVD on the St Anger album to understand the album, is there for a reason.
I'm a huge Metallica fan, and have been critical when they have screwed things up, but this time they have recorded a great album. What I see is this: this album is not for everyone, and most people who says they love it don't really understand it. The first time I listened to it i swore they were out of their minds and had lost me as a fan, but on re-listening it grew on me, and now is one of my favorites all time (listen to "Shoot me again")
The music has evolved, if you want great guitar solos go to a Metallica concert, they play like there is no tomorrow.
St Anger is awesome, better than the albums that came after the black album, but they were still good, they were experimenting and with time those albums have become and essential part of my collection. Try listenin "Bleeding Me" when on the road.
Heh, that's funny because Metallica is the only band in the current music horizon that has made the change in the right direction:
...
1.- Ship a DVD along the CD for no extra cost
2.- Provide acces to Value Added goods on a web site after you buy the CD
3.- Sell the whole package for $8 less than the rest
And, of course, the music in that album kicks ass
What has corporate america to do with this? Napster was providing a medium for commiting a crime, and they failed to correct it, so they were shut down. End of the story.
w orks ship sailed many moons ago ... Metallica kicked their asses really hard ... and keeps kicking ...
Metallica was fighting for their rights, and has all the right to do so, even in the future.
And I would say that the crappy iron-maiden/in-flames/nevermores/iced-earths/soil
Right now you are modded as troll, but I find your comment Insightful as hell.
Metallica decided to go against napster for failing on stoping the illegal trading of their copyrighted work. Technically speaking Napster was not a P2P system, having a central index was what cost them the case, and Metallica had a case.
Even now, we all know that on all the P2P networks almost all (you can safely say that all) content is illegal. Metallica still has ground to sue any of the P2P system creators, but they would lose this time if they do. They have the right to sue, and napster was guilty and had to be punished.
Now labelling everything Metallica as crap because they gave Napster what they deserved is childish, troll, flamebait, and most important of all, the very reason why the **AA and the big Media Corporations take us geeks as idiots an pirates.
Case in point Metallica's St. Anger CD.
Adding a troll at the end of your comment makes the insightful reference on the beginning go down the flush.
St. Anger is one of the few albums this year from a major band that does not follow the current MTV forced trend. And kicks ass.
Besides being completely off-topic, the latest Iron Maiden release can't even wash Metallica's St Anger socks ...
St Anger rocks, it's pure Metallica, and is not made for IM sissies.
Crap ... you should warn in the subject when a joke could make the reader spill his cofee ....
+1, Funny
I have been looking for a good source on the security of CDMA (2000 - 1X, but also CDMA). I have found the basic stuff using google, but is difficult to find real info given that almost all the google results are for press releases or biz-talk from the technology providers (qualcomm, ericsson, motorola, etc) and all of them state "great security".
The question is can somebody deploy a off-the-shelf (or homebuilt) scanner and grab the conversations on-the-air? I know that a PR (pseudo random) number is used with the ESN and A-key to generate some keys for encrypting some of the communications, and that the voice channel is "scrambled", but is there a source where the security implications of this is discussed?
Also interesting is that this article appeared (or was going to) on yesterday's slashdot edition but after being available for subscribers for a while it dissapeared.
In most cases application level replication does not work. When you replicate a DB you need an exact copy, not only the data or table structures, but stored procedures, functions, foreign keys, triggers, synonyms, etc.
In my day job we use Oracle because
1.- Management is using the Powered by Oracle (or something like that) to sell the products to our clients
2.- Replication
But in my freelance company we use PostgreSQL exclusively and have experienced the burden of not having a reliable replication software. This is Good News for us small shops.
This is great ... I wish I had a highly visited web-site to join this protest.
Anyways, apache joining is a great step, it is a highly recognized organization, but how about linux.com, linux.org, kernel.org, gnu.org, fsf.org, etc next?